Award overlap

Books That Won Both the Alex Awards and the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

1 book has won both the Alex Awards and the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence: All the Light We Cannot See (2015/2015). 10 more were recognized by both without winning both.

Years are award years. Alex Awards · Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

Won both

Books that won both the Alex Awards and the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, most recent first.
BookAuthorAlex AwardsAndrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
All the Light We Cannot SeeAnthony Doerr
  • 2015 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2015 Winner (Fiction)

Recognized by both

Books recognized by both the Alex Awards and the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence without winning both, most recent first.
BookAuthorAlex AwardsAndrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
Chain-Gang All-StarsNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  • 2024 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2024 Longlist (Fiction)
The TalkDarrin Bell
  • 2024 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2024 Finalist (Nonfiction)
Solito: A MemoirJavier Zamora
  • 2023 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2023 Longlist (Nonfiction)
DominicanaAngie Cruz
  • 2020 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2020 Longlist (Fiction)
The Nickel BoysColson Whitehead
  • 2020 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2020 Longlist (Fiction)
CirceMadeline Miller
  • 2019 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2019 Longlist (Fiction)
Educated: A MemoirTara Westover
  • 2019 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2019 Longlist (Nonfiction)
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes AfterClemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
  • 2019 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2019 Longlist (Nonfiction)
Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates
  • 2016 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2016 Longlist (Nonfiction)
The Round HouseLouise Erdrich
  • 2013 Winner (Adult Books for Teens)
  • 2013 Finalist (Fiction)